Monday, October 25, 2010

This is an 18x12 magnet board with roof metal sheeting that I bought at Home Depot. The letters are
Cricut Mickey Font and the animals are all from Cricut Animal Kingdom. Half the animals, the name and tree are magnets and the rest are glued on.

I used different kinds of gel pens to give the animals some additional dimension.

definitely a labor of love!
PS the tree is Cricut Paper Dolls Dress Up

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Someone asked me to make them a gift card holder and the explosion box is the way to go!
As usual, I like my projects larger than usual so I used a 12x12 piece of paper for the box part and a 8 1/8x 8 1/8 piece for the top of the box.

I left space for personal messages and the actual gift card gets attached to the middle box.

I had some requests for directions for the flower pail card. I like my cards larger than usual so for this card you will need a 12x12 double sided piece of paper and a 4.5 x 9 piece of paper.

Fold the paper in half to make a triangle....if it isn't perfect I just trim it with my trimmer.

with the long side of the triangle facing down, take the right lower corner and bring it to meet the middle of the left hand side of the triangle. I found it easier to see where both sides would lay before I pressed down. Then repeat for the lower left corner and bring it up to meet the middle of the right side. Once you are happy with the way it lays then open up the left lower corner and apply glue (I use my ATG).

Now you take the triangle on the top of the bucket, it should be two separate pieces and fold the first one down over your bucket

Glue down the triangle

I like to add some embellishments to the right hand side to hide that the triangle is not perfect. For the card I used a 4.5x4.5 card (a 4.5x9 piece of paper)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Like most people with a cricut, I get asked to make lots of things for school....I'm in charge of making all the birthday cards for the teachers. As there are so many I keep it simple and try to use a lot of my scraps.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

I'm a big fan of magnet boards as newborn gifts and they're great to personalize. You can choose any color and make them very personal. The white shapes on the bottom are different magnets to be used to attach things to the board. This one is about 2.5 feet

My husband asked me to make a card for his cousin just getting married so I went to work. I thought it came out pretty nice but my husband said absolutely not, he said it was too old lady and I had to make something more modern!!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Forgive the cardboard casing on the frame, but I found these frames on sale at Home Goods, bought 20 of them in light blue and pink and personalize them for newborns and little kids. All with vinyl cut with the cricut.